Ableton 6 better on OSX or Windows?

adambomb337 · Post by **adambomb337** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 6:20 am

Is Ableton 6 more stable on OSX 10.4 or Windows XP? And does anyone know which will be better for version 7?

timothyallan · Post by **timothyallan** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:20 am

It's much better on XP if you are concerned with track count and the warmth of audio.

pepezabala · Post by **pepezabala** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:43 am

timothyallan wrote:It's much better on XP if you are concerned with track count and the warmth of audio.

Don't believe this, he might be joking.

I often play with a friend who uses xp and his ableton sounds colder than mine (I am on Apple OSX 10.4.10). But this might be related to his workflow and the plug-ins he uses. Also the temperature of sound is depending a lot on subjective factors like ear-bleeding, blood-pressure etc.

Also I find that my OSX is more stable than his Windows. The Abletons are both equally stable. My friend is less stable than me. But this also depends on the day, on what each of us had for dinner, etc.

If you run ableton on a macbook it will run slightly faster using windows instead of OSX. But this is processor-speed (doesn't affect the bpm!), don't know about stability though.

ashtonron · Post by **ashtonron** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:55 am

adambomb337 wrote:Is Ableton 6 more stable on OSX 10.4 or Windows XP? And does anyone know which will be better for version 7?

I switched to OSX and have found ableton to crash less often. It still crashes, but significantly less often.

The other issue for me is being able to connect midi controllers whilst ableton is running without having to restart ableton for them to be useable.

abletoff · Post by **abletoff** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:56 am

In a stable if kept well isolated you can really have two equally warm abletons. But no stable is really warm if you haven'y got a SSL shed near it.

jez3122 · Post by **jez3122** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:14 am

ashtonron wrote:
adambomb337 wrote:Is Ableton 6 more stable on OSX 10.4 or Windows XP? And does anyone know which will be better for version 7?
I switched to OSX and have found ableton to crash less often. It still crashes, but significantly less often.

I have never had ableton crash on XP

LJN · Post by **LJN** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 3:47 pm

Live is very stable on XP and somewhat faster than the OSX version. Don't listen to the crap about "colder sound". If that'd be the case, it definitely has nothing to do with Live itself.

eib · Post by **eib** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 4:17 pm

The "warmth" totally depends on what sound card you're using.

nolus · Post by **nolus** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 4:21 pm

A better question would be does it run better on an Apple, Toshiba, Sony, HP, Fujitsu, Alienware or whatever, not to mention all the different models. stability of XP depends a lot on the hardware platform.

Not saying that I know the answer though!

It runs very reliably on my Sony but used to crash and glitch all the time on my old Fujitsu machine.

On the other hand Apple is a good choice because there are only a few different configurations and they are all known to work well. Whereas Sony have about 20 different models and they keep changing all the time.

Having said that any reputable brand should be good enough.

hacktheplanet · Post by **hacktheplanet** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 4:37 pm

Just buy the damn Mac Book. You'll just be wishing you did if you get a Windows based machine.

pat the dog · Post by **pat the dog** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:12 pm

in my experience live is extremely stable on both platforms. i think i had about 2 crashes on my intel mac in the last 6 months.

on my old windows pc it would crash occasionally - probably due to rouge plug-ins. but in either case it doesn't really matter as live automatically prompts you if you want to restore your set from the undo history.

audio.android · Post by **audio.android** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:30 pm

In SOS, they did a test using bootcamp. Same computer, same interface.

The test project was running at like 55% in XP, and like 52% in OS X.

I don't think that means much though.

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:45 pm

We've discussed this before, while XP shows a lower CPU useage, Live on XP also starts to drop outp at displayed lower percentages compared to OSX. So really, it's still about equal.

beatpoet · Post by **beatpoet** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:51 pm

So XP sounds warmer than OS X ? How does Vista compare ?

I wonder will Leopard have glowing little tubes on the toolbar to make it warmer ?

zurikiser · Post by **zurikiser** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 1:28 am

We have a macbook and a pc both running live 6
From our experince abelton 6 does far better on XP.
It is just all around better performance.

Hopefully abe 7 address some of the issues that 6 had with OSX

-z
http://www.myspace.com/amantsymphonic

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